Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In France and Spain , therefore , notices of medieval and Renaissance music on record are usually written by critics who may have studied the historical performance of the repertory in question less than the performers whose work is being reviewed .
2 The National Front 's recent revival in national and local polls , after losing nearly all its 33 MPs in last year 's general election , has thrown leftwing and opposition parties into disarray .
3 This work relies heavily on American ethnomethodological and interactionist discussions of bureaucracy constructed by people on the basis of their social interaction , which explains why much police research in sociology has taken this theoretical shift .
4 The object-oriented approach increases both the semantic and manipulation capability of database systems and therefore offers more than semantic data models .
5 You see , he knew me to be like a dog on a leash , straining to break free and head hell for leather into the nearest mischief .
6 While there is some evidence that awareness and concern about the adverse social and health effects of alcohol are spreading among young , better-off people , daily consumption of alcohol in the home is now a commonplace occurrence in most families .
7 ‘ increased emphasis on the social and community aspects of regeneration -not purely the physical provision of buildings . ’
8 the exercise of power is not the unconditional outcome of a Mechanical clash of wills but has definite social and material conditions of existence and is circumscribed through its links with other determinations in a social formation .
9 This theory of ideology introduces a distorting dynamic in the process of knowledge that is not due to mistakes or faulty thinking but is systematically related to the social and material relations of society .
10 But also important is the information which a given topic can yield on neighbourhood norms and on general social and background information of value to the researchers .
11 It was striking that the historical , social and policy implications of language teaching were the areas most neglected in methods work .
12 ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel .
13 The difference between the 13 C of atmospheric CO 2 and leaf carbon of maize ( and certain other C4 species ) is conservative across environments and did not vary significantly with [ CO 2 ] ( B.D.M. et al. , manuscript in preparation ) , enabling us to use the 13 C of C4 leaves as a proxy for the 13 C of chamber air .
14 She was previously editorial and production assistant at Product Communication , in London .
15 The parts for the full-sized robot were cast in epoxy and aluminium powder with steel ribbing for strength ; the pieces were then chromium plated .
16 The Chevron is constructed using a mixture of conventional glass fibre , kevlar and carbon fibre with polyester foam cores to stabilise the glass skins .
17 This separation between scientific and common-sense knowledge in turn produces a significant effect on Bachelard 's thinking about history .
18 It underlies the continuing tension in engineering between ‘ engineering science ’ and ‘ engineering design ’ , and in social work between the social scientific and case-work elements in training .
19 The lifetime perspective is extended by building simulation models of individual and family income over time .
20 These modules offer students the opportunity to raise their awareness of the scope for both individual and community action in relation to community welfare and community needs .
21 The central insight , as Jonathan Mann ( Harvard ) pointed out , and as is emphasised in the report of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition , is that discrimination by society lies at the root of individual and community vulnerability to AIDS .
22 It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers .
23 Public accountability and transparency might be assisted by opening up the negotiation process between Central and Local government to participation by disinterested , knowledgeable parties and to non-expert advisors who could seek to ensure transparency , which is manifestly lacking in current procedures , particularly for the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure .
24 There is amongst sociolinguists a general consensus that pseudonyms should be used for both personal and street names in order to preserve anonymity .
25 In 1983 a classification scheme was proposed for patients with atypical naevi , according to their personal and family history of melanoma and atypical naevi .
26 The group of chronic atrophic gastritis patients had a reduction in total phospholipids and in lysolecithin , phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol , and an absolute and percentage increase in phosphatidylcholine ; variations in the other phospholipid classes were not significant .
27 At Sunbury , XTP 's activities are directed towards helping the business add value by early and expert use of technology — much of which originates from outside in the contractors , competitors , and at BPX sites .
28 National , folk , social , contemporary and theatre forms of dance
29 The study demonstrated not only the independent effect of maternal age on mortality ( in the form of reverse " J " or " U " shaped curves ) at all parity levels , but also that mortality increased almost linearly in the neonatal , post-neonatal and toddler ages with parity in each maternal age group ( Heady and Morris , 1959 ) .
30 Shares worthless : The Inland Revenue has said that ordinary and preference shares of Sound Diffusion are of ‘ negligible value ’ for taxation purposes .
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